AMD Ups The Workstation Ante With A New FirePro Driver

With SPEC's Pro/Engineer test the low-end FirePro had its weighted geometric mean raised up by 23% and the V8800 was modestly higher by 13%, which actually put the slower V3800 ahead of the V8800.

When running the SolidWorks view-set in SPECViewPerf 10, the FirePro V3800 numbers ran up by 33% with this newest driver and under the V8800 it increased by 10%.

In the last SPECViewPerf 10 test we ran on Linux, at UGNX the V3800 performance improved by 33% while the V8800 improved by about 30%.